Forgetting Jane by CJ Warrant

Author:CJ Warrant [Warrant, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-06-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

The hospital ran quiet at night. The third shift hospital staff members hunkered down in their normal positions. They were told not to leave unless for rounds and patient needs.

He walked in through the bright main lobby without much notice—just like any normal day—or night. There wasn’t anyone except for a nurse sitting at the main desk filing her nails. Lucky for him, her focus was down on her fingers. The gritty sound made him remember how he was taught to sharpen his blades.

The way his mother used to exhale a blissful hiss when he glided the honed blade along her skin. Only five years old then, but she taught him how to hold the handle in such a way that he’d cut with a surgeon’s precision. He gave her such pleasure until she up and died on him.

Tonight was the night he’d take Jane back. It had been a week since he last saw her. The need to be with her wore him down. He made sure his special room was ready for her, checking off the list in his head and checked his pocket for the plastic bag filled with a chloroformed towel.

Hardly anyone saw him as he made his way toward the elevator. As the doors opened, he changed his mind and decided to take the back stairs instead. Avoiding the security cameras at the end of the hall, he took the two flights of stairs up like he had all the time in the world. He didn’t want to exert too much energy. He had to save his strength for Jane.

He nudged open the heavy metal door as quietly as possible and stepped just outside the psych wing. As he peeked around the corner, he saw the night security guard. The electronic doors behind him were still opened. He must have just made his rounds.

With the ring of keys strung on his belt, the tall man could be heard through the halls. As the guard disappeared around the corner, this was his one chance to get past the door before it closed.

He had one chance. When the double doors started to close, he slid past the entrance and hid in the alcove near the empty nurses’ desk.

The hallway was dark except for the emergency exit sign lit up at the far corner.

A janitor mopping the linoleum floor at the far end finished cleaning the floors and headed toward the exit. He ducked back in the alcove until the cleaner was gone.

As he stepped out of the shadows, the redheaded nurse—who had helped Jane before—strolled back to the desk. Cherry. What a bad girl. All that make-up slathered on her face assured him that she earned the title naughty. He became bone hard as his studied the woman. She could be dessert, but he wasn’t prepared for one more. Maybe next time.

The nurse grabbed a bag from behind the desk and headed for the exit. How odd. There was no one to watch over the patients. He was fine with that; less hassle moving Jane out of there.

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